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Name of German family who built an ‘empire’ in central Europe from the late Middle Ages to 1918 (8) An old form of public punishment, persisting in England into the late 1800s (6) A masterless samurai warrior in feudal Japan (5) Anthony ____, to whom Mary, Queen of Scots wrote what came to be known as the ‘Gallows Letter’ (9) Pioneering African-American investigative reporter born in 1862 (3,1,5) One of a pair of armed robbers who went on a crime spree during the 1930s Depression (5) ‘Lost village’ on Salisbury Plain, evacuated in 1943 by the War Office for training purposes (5) Carolyn ____, writer on modern British social and cultural history (8) A medieval professional musician or other entertainer Sir Arthur ____, British archaeologist who excavated Knossos between 1900 and 1931 (5) Preserved bog body found in Cheshire in 1984, nicknamed ‘Pete Marsh’ by the local press (6,3) Landlocked East African country that experienced a brutal civil war between October 1990 and July 1994 (6)
